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Read here for a sample of some of the DCI physicians, physician-scientists, researchers and nurses whose work was featured in the media and academic journals this month. This list includes Ray Barfield, MD; E. Shelley Hwang, MD; Henry S. Friedman, MD; Thomas LeBlanc, MD; Angeles Secord, MD; and...

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award (Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for Basic and Physician Scientists) Funding Agency: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation The Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes,...

Hoofing it up the steps and zipping through the halls across Duke’s medical campus, Crystal Cates, MS, CCRP, is a clinical research coordinator on a mission. On any given day one can find her on her way to collect specimens in the operating room, back to the lab to process them or off to see...

Caring House will host its 27 Annual Gala on Saturday, Jan. 27. This year’s gala honors Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular division chief Nelson Chao, MD, MBA, the Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Cancer Research Professor. For more than 26 years Caring House has provided a home away from home...

The 2018 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting will be held Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 in Chicago, Illinois. This three-day event convenes AACI cancer center directors and executive-level administrators with leaders of national cancer research and advocacy groups, industry, and government health agencies to...

The 10th Annual AACI Clinical Research Initiative Meeting will be held July 11 and 12 in Rosemont, Illinois. The AACI Clinical Research Initiative Meeting is designed to support leaders of cancer center clinical trials offices as they work to improve the clinical research process, understand the...

Benjamin “Ben” Turits was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1984, when he was just 4 years old. Living with his family in Cooperstown, New York, Turits’ surgical team was able to succesfully remove his tumor. “I am so fortunate,” he reflected. “I feel I am lucky because I haven’t had to deal with any...

A group of Duke Cancer Institute gynecologic oncology researchers has published a new paper this month with their projections on the cost-effectiveness of ovarian cancer screening in the U.S., based on their analysis of published results of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (...

William Shakespeare said it best when he penned “All the world’s a stage.” No doubt, no one knows this better than Johnny Alston, a 41-year theater professor at North Carolina Central University. Throughout the years he’s played many characters – sometimes the salty antagonist, other times the...

Antibiotics are currently the only treatments available for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, but researchers at Duke Health are working to expand the medical toolkit by identifying vulnerable areas of the disease-causing bacteria that could lead to innovative therapies. The research...

Leukemia patients who received frequent transfusions had short stays in hospice, suggesting that transfusion dependence presents a barrier to end-of-life care. Toward the end of life, some leukemia patients depend on blood transfusions to ease their suffering, but those very measures are often not...

Duke Cancer Institute researchers are attending the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) 59th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Atlanta this week. Here are some highlights from the ASH meeting: Updated Prognostic Tools Needed in the Era of Novel Therapies for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia...

A group of Duke Cancer Institute gynecologic oncologists, led by Andrew Berchuck, MD, are advising, in a perspectives article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology , that an evidence- and biomarker guided strategy-offers the best value-based approach to the use of oral PARP inhibitor drugs as...

The Consortium for Canine Comparative Oncology (c3o), a collaboration between Duke Cancer Institute and North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, will host the Third Annual Canine Comparative Oncology Symposium on Friday, Feb. 23, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Durham...

Shining a light for supportive care and survivorship, more than 160 guests attended the 27th Annual Nancy Weaver Emerson Tree of Hope Lighting Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 1. "The event was a wonderful success and symbolized the strength and hope felt by those coping with cancer," said Cheyenne Corbett...

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